This lacks nuance. We weren’t interested because billionaires could and did die, but the uniqueness in how they were lost and died. I am no billionaire apologist, but the migrants died a common death; the migrant drownings have been common for years. Does that make it less tragic? Fuck, no, it doesn’t and it shouldn’t.
But with our intermestic news, we loss focus. Those in the Medeterrian should have had news about the 750 souls that perished. But for the North Americans, the news of the sub was culturally significant. So let’s not lose the nuance. It had nothing to do with billionaires, but that NA are culturally primed to care about all things Titanic.
This lacks nuance. We weren’t interested because billionaires could and did die, but the uniqueness in how they were lost and died. I am no billionaire apologist, but the migrants died a common death; the migrant drownings have been common for years. Does that make it less tragic? Fuck, no, it doesn’t and it shouldn’t.
But with our intermestic news, we loss focus. Those in the Medeterrian should have had news about the 750 souls that perished. But for the North Americans, the news of the sub was culturally significant. So let’s not lose the nuance. It had nothing to do with billionaires, but that NA are culturally primed to care about all things Titanic.